TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 792, 4 January 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

{Per Press Agency .) LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. <> [By Submarine Cable.) THE EASTERN QUESTION. London, January 1. The Conference has agreed to prolong the armistice till the Ist of March. AUSTRALIA. CRICKET MATCH. M elbourne, January 3. The Ballarat twenty-two scored 146. The Englishmen, in their second innings, have one wicket down for 10 INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, January 4. The Hero’s news is anticipated. The quarantined passengers of the Australia express strong dissai isfaction at the alleged neglect of the Government in not providing necessary comforts and medical attendance. On Wednesday evening some attempt to construct a raft, with the intention of escaping, was made. They were with difficulty dissuaded from seising a boat

and coining to complain to the authorities. When Dr Philson visited the quarantine station, passengers used threats that if their wants were not attended to, they would violate the quarantine regulations. The nominations for the Derby of 1879, and the Mares Produce Stakes of 1881, must be made to the secretary at Auckland by 8 o’clock on Friday evening. Napier, January 3. An action for libel has been commenced by Che proprietors of the Telegraph against the proprietors of the Ranke's Bay Herald. This afternoon Messrs Carlisle, Dinwiddie, and Morrison were served with three writs at the instance of Messrs Kennedy, Knowlss, and Newton respectively, proprietors of the Telegraph , each claiming £IOOO damages for alleged libel contained in a letter published in the Berald respecting the Gazettes advertising contract. Wellington, January 4. Mr Broomhall has arrived in Wellington, overland from Napier and Tauranga. The letter from the Auckland Waste Lands Board only reached him at Crofton, while inspecting the opening at Fielding block. It is understood that he agrees to the resolutions of the Board as to purchase, deposit and cultivation of one-tifth of the block in five years. Rodolph Laucent, a youth of seventeen, for criminal assault on a little girl, was sentenced this morning, at the Supreme Court, to eight years’ imprisonment and twenty lashes. The Agent-General, under date December 27th, telegraphs the despatch of the following shipments of emigrants : —The Oxford, with 239, for Auckland; the Fernglen, with 240, for Napier; the Northampton, with 334, for Westland and Wellington. Greymouth:, January 4. The Greymouth Jockey Club Handicap— Declaration of Weights ;—Hercules, Bst 71bs; Danebury, Bst 41bs; Tommy Dodd, Bst; Strongbow, Bst; Lady May, 7st lOlbs; Kingfisher, 7st lOlbs; Nero, 7st lOlbs; Middleton, 7st 81bs; Isaac Walton, 7st filbs; Septimus, fist lOlbs ; Black Eagle, 6st 71bs ; Mignonette, fist 71bs ; Snowdon colt, fist 41bs ; Doncaster, fist; Harriet, fist lOlbs. Dunedin, January 3.

Mr William Henry Wood, defaulting se> cretary of the Colney Hatch Gas Company, and who was arrested on the arrival of the May Queen at Port Chalmers, was brought before the Resident Magistrate at Dunedin to-day. Detective Dalton, of the London police, identified the prisoner, and produced the depositions of the directors of the company, which showed that accused had embezzled over £6OO. He was committed to the Dunedin gaol to await the arrival of the Governor’s warrant for his transmission to England. During the year ending December Slat, there were registered in Dunedin 1786 births, 619 deaths, and 437 marriages. Mr McLean, Commissioner of Customs, leaves for Wellington on Monday. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court were opened this morning before Mr Justice Williams. His Honor, addressing the jury, expressed his hope that the new Bankruptcy Act would prove successful. Nothing was easier than to criticise an Act of Parliament, but nothing was more difficult than to frame one properly. He had no wish to animadvert upon this particular Act. He advocated that when possible uniformity should be preserved between colonial legislation and that of the mother country, and pointed out that this had not been done in framing the new Bankruptcy Act. It might be that the colonial Act was a substantial improvement on the English Act; but on that point he had nothing to say. The Grand Jury returned true bills in every case except one. William Stanley was found guilty of passing a valueless cheque, and remanded for sentence, as was also Btty Johnstone for larceny. David McKechnie was sentenced to twelve months for forgery at Lawrence. Yesterday a pun was discharged through the window of a house occupied by a man named Campbell. Several children were in at the time, and one was severely wounded in the hand. No clue has been found to the person firing the gun. Three tenders have been received by the City Council for the right of constructing tramways in the city, but they have not yet been considered. A telegram has been received from Newcastle (New South Wales) coal proprietors, who refuse to make any reduction in the price of coal, as requested by the New Zealand coal merchants. {From a correspondent of the Press.) TIM ABU, January 3. At the inquest to-day on the body of Arthur Weaver, death was shown to have been caused by disease of the heart, weakened by an affection of the liver and lungs. A verdict to this effect was returned.